Well that was a treat. Any time you can sit back and watch Anderson Silva go to work its a privilege and Adesanya bettered the legend today. His future is incredibly bright. Time to get some kip, thanks for following.

05:19

Anderson Silva -

I am very happy, thank you God for giving me one more chance, I love my job, this game is tough. This is my heart, my life I continued to fight because this is my life. Thank you every single person who has come here today. I don't know about the future, maybe I'll fight in Brazil.

05:17

Adesanya -

This is crazy, this is like for a kid playing basketball to play Michael Jordan. Crazy week, I showed up to work. Player 1 has the controller and I showed up. Kelvin put that belt down seriously.

05:15

ADESANYA WINS 29-28, 30-27, 30-27

05:12

A brilliant fight

Adesanya begins the round picking his shots far better. Silva demands the youngster comes forward and has his back on the cage, but Style Bender refuses to play along. They meet in the centre again. The 20-year age gap hasn't been evident but Adesanya has performed with maturity.

Silva probably hasn't done enough in the final five minutes but this one will go to the scorecards, it was everything we'd hope it would be.

05:07

Silva finding his rhythm

Much better from Silva, his right hand is doing plenty of work and finding a home with more regularity. Adesanya knows he's in a fight now.

The Brazilian seems loose and is beginning to enjoy himself. There are faints galore and its a bit of a chess match but with enough action to keep everyone on the edge of their seats.

05:00

That lived up to the billing!

A very quiet start as both men attempt to read each other's movements. Perhaps we should have expected this, these two are both incredibly intelligent operators.

Silva's reactions are still sharp but he's caught! Adesanya wobbles him but doesn't rush in. Anderson then chases his opponent down and connects, though his pursuit looked a bit reckless.

Everyone in Rod Laver arena is totally engaged in the action. Each movement could be crucial and Silva evades a kick matrix style. Great opening round.

Adesanya has shot to public consciousness over the past 12 months and it hasn't just been the wins, but the way he's dismantled quality fighters.

He is a showman but also incredibly smooth and accurate.. sound familiar? Anderson Silva might be fighting as close to a mirror image of himself as possible. It was a crying shame the main event was pulled last minute but this one is absolutely fascinating.

Vannata produces a well-timed takedown a couple of minutes into the first round. Mariano looked dangerous and athletic on the feet with a couple of stinging kicks absorbed by his opponent's gloves.

Vannata goes to work from full guard, keeping his posture up and winging shots. Mariano made very little attempt to get up. He then gets rolled over and Vannata grabs the arm, twisting it into a kimora and forcing a tap with the clock running down, what a performance.

An absolute clinic by De La Rosa. She lands a takedown from bodylock and then passes to a triangle. Kassam showed brilliant flexibility and durability to stick it out for a while but then the American forced a verbal tap with the armbar. The eighth career submission for the flyweight contender.

03:38

Dominant round for De La Rosa

De La Rosa dominated the early going, taking her Australian opponent down and landing some solid shots before Kassam worked back to full guard.

The 23-year-old American toiled, trying to get some clean punches down as her coaches yell: 'We need to do a Khabib', which clearly means unloading with relentless ground and pound.

The Australian Crute is the busier early on, throwing kicks to both head and body with varying degrees of success. Alvey is plodding but connects with a big left mid way through the first but then he's dropped!

'Smilin Sam' hits the canvas and Crute thinks its all over but ref Marc Goddard doesn't stop the fight. Then as Crute lands some ground and pound, the ref steps in. Alvey is furious and believes its an early stoppage.The light-heavyweight still has a perfect record.

03:08

First up - Sam Alvey vs Jim Crute

03:06

The master against the pupil

This fight sells itself. There has been plenty of respect between Silva and Adesanya in the build-up but the storyline is compelling enough in its own right.

Adesanya was the breakout star last year and was inspired to take up MMA by Silva, who he challenges tonight. The Brazilian legend hasn't fought for a couple of years and it remains to be see how sharp those iconic reflexes will be.

Another antipodean win to delight the crowd at Rod Laver Arena. Young, who is from across the Tasman but was very much the fan favourite there, came on strong in the final minute of every round, landing more strikes than Arnett who seemed content to pick his punches on the back foot.

In the final ten seconds of the third Young dropped his opponent to round off an impressive performance. The judges all saw it 30-27.

A back-and-forth fight between the New Zealander and his Brazilian opponent ends with a thin split decision in the Kiwi's favour.

He took one hell of a blow to the crown jewels and did magnificently well to recover. Kara France just about had the edge in the stand-up, landing crisp, clean counters despite occasionally back-pedalling.

The challenger will have put himself through the physical and emotional strains of an intense camp for nothing, through no fault of his own. But this freak incident couldn't have been foreseen and he had the class to wish Whittaker well.

01:26

‘Mr. Perfect’ Kyung Ho Kang def. Teruto Ishihara by rear-naked choke

That was a fight in a phone box to start the main card. Both men came out swinging and then.. kept swinging.

Eventually it was the South Korean Kyung Ho Kang who managed to sink in a submission and rather than tapping, his Japanese opponent Ishihara simply allowed himself to go to sleep.

01:22

Dana White's verdict -

"This was a freak, freak injury."

"Our doctor has never seen it, ever."

UFC president Dana White gives an update on Robert Whittaker's withdrawal from #UFC234